Re: Hanford Site Cleanup Standards

["Vincent King" <slavak@bresnan.net>]

Perception is reality for those without imagination or foresight enough to

see past what's in front of their noses.



Also, the speed limit / traffic ticket comparison to cleanup standards

doesn't work very well. Now, if the speed limits on the interstate were set

at 3 miles per hour and fines were $10,000 for every mile a hour over the

limit, the analogy would be better.  Then it would more accurately reflect

the unbalance in cost vs. health/safety benefit, and the lack of risk

associated with the infraction level.



The public would rapidly demand changes to a law like the one above.

There's nothing preventing a reconsideration and modification of overly

conservative environmental cleanup standards, either, if the public became

convinced they weren't getting their money's worth in health benefits.  But

that is dependent on better public education and exposing non-factual 'hype'

for what it is.



At least, that's my perception....



Vincent King

Grand Junction, CO





----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Steven Dapra" <sjd@swcp.com>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 7:54 PM

Subject: Re: Hanford Site Cleanup Standards





> Sept. 3

>

> Bill Lipton wrote, "(Like it or not, perception is reality.)"

>

> O! that way madness lies; let me shun that.  (King Lear, III, iv, 21)

>

> The reason we are in this quagmire is that to a large extent perception

> <has> become reality.  If we lose -- or have already lost -- the ability

to

> distinguish between perception and reality we are headed toward a state of

> madness -- or are already there.

>

> Steven Dapra

> sjd@swcp.com

>

>

> Let us have madness openly, O men

> Of my generation.  Let us follow

> The footsteps of this slaughtered age.

>

> Kenneth Patchen

> (Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th Edition; 730:7)

>

>

>

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